WSOF officials announced the booking Thursday night, revealing
that Burkman will step in for an injured Jake Shields
at the event. The evening’s main draw airs live on NBC Sports
Network and is headlined by a lightweight title confrontation
between Justin
Gaethje and Nick
Newell.

Fitch and Burkman first met under the UFC banner back in 2006, with
Fitch submitting “The People’s Warrior” in the second round. The
welterweights would not clash again until last June, when Burkman
put Fitch to sleep in a guillotine choke to even the score at WSOF
3.

Fitch rebounded from the loss in his last outing, scoring a split
verdict over Marcelo
Alfaya at WSOF 6. Burkman, meanwhile, came up short in his bid
to capture the inaugural WSOF welterweight belt but bounced back
with a first-round knockout of Tyler
Stinson on March 29.